Seminar Series: Research Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake
The Behavioral Science of Vaccine Uptake
Gretchen Chapman, PhD
Department Head and Professor, Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2:00 - 3:00 pm:
SCTR 12-146
Smilow Center for Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
No registration required.
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Coffee and refreshments will be served.
Gretchen Chapman, PhD, has been a Professor in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University since 2017. Her research goal is to illuminate the psychological processes underlying decision making and to harness these findings in the design of theoretically-motivated, policy-relevant interventions to facilitate healthy and prosocial behavior such as vaccination and blood donation. Dr. Chapman's research combines the fields of judgment and decision making and health psychology. Using both laboratory and field experiments, she tests behavioral interventions, simultaneously exploring the theoretical mechanisms of decision making and also yielding policy insights into methods for improving health behavior and health outcomes. Dr. Chapman is the recipient of an APA early career award and a NJ Psychological Association Distinguished Research Award, a fellow of APA and APS. She is a former senior editor at Psychological Science, a past president of the Society for Judgment & Decision Making, the author of more than 100 journal articles, and the recipient of 20 years of continuous external funding.
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Strategies for Communicating with Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Director, Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2:00-3:00 pm
Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium
Smilow Center For Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH, is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases specialist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. He practiced as a general pediatrician in Fort Collins, Colorado, for 8 years. Dr. O’Leary is the director of the Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network, Colorado’s pediatric practice-based research network. His research focuses on identifying barriers to vaccination and developing and testing interventions to address those barriers. He serves as the liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He is also on the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee). He serves as a co-chair of the Policy Committee for the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition and co-chair of the Immunization Committee for the Colorado Chapter of the AAP. Dr. O’Leary received a BA in Environmental Studies from Brown University and graduated from University of Texas Houston Medical School. He completed his pediatric residency at The Children's Hospital in Denver.
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The Politicization of Science and its Implications for Vaccine Uptake: Politicians, Conservative Media, and the Far Right
Yotam Ophir, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University at Buffalo
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2:00-3:00 pm:
BRB II/III Auditorium
Biomedical Research Building
421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 1910
No registration required.
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Yotam Ophir, PhD, studies political and science communication—specifically, media effects, persuasion, misinformation, conspiracy theories and extremism—using mixed-method approaches, including computational text mining, network analysis, experiments, and surveys. Dr. Ophir’s coauthored book, “Democracy amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, & Persuasion” was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. His sole-authored book “Misinformation & Society” is expected to be published in 2025. Dr. Ophir is the head of the Media Effects, Misinformation, and Extremism lab at the University at Buffalo, a member of UB’s Center for Information Integrity, and a distinguished fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his MA and BA from the University of Haifa, Israel and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Uncovering the Context for Vaccine Communication in Outbreaks
Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, CPH
Professor of Community Health, Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Texas A&M University
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
BRB II/III Auditorium
Biomedical Research Building
421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
No registration required.
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Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, CPH, a medical anthropologist and public health researcher, is Professor of Community Health in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences and the Director for the Community Health Degree program at Texas A&M University. For over 25 years, she has conducted research on public health emergency management, focusing on community resilience, behaviorally realistic emergency planning, public engagement in disaster planning, and crisis and emergency risk communication. She has also worked diligently to translate scholarly research into actionable recommendations for policymakers and practitioners, including as Principal Investigator for CommuniVax – a national rapid ethnographic research coalition that partnered with local communities of color to tackle COVID-19 vaccine access and acceptance issues and put equity at the center of the pandemic recovery process. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and is certified in public health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
What Works to Increase Vaccine Uptake
Noel T. Brewer, PhD
Gillings Distinguished Professor in Public Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 3:00 - 4:00 pm:
Law Auditorium
Jordan Medical Education Center, 5th Floor
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
No registration required.
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Noel T. Brewer, PhD, is a behavioral scientist who studies vaccination, tobacco cessation, and other health behaviors. He serves as a voting member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and leads a WHO working group on measuring the behavioral and social drivers of vaccination. Dr. Brewer has advised on HPV vaccination for the President’s Cancer Panel under Presidents Obama and Trump and to the Biden Cancer initiative.